Federal Register: November 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 224)
DOCID: FR Doc 02-29463
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Docket ID: [Docket Number 010209034-2252-08]
NOTICE: NOTICES
ACTION: Census 2000:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Urban Area Criteria for Census 2000; Correction
EFFECTIVE DATES: November 20, 2002.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
On March 15, 2002 (67 FR 11663), the Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) published a Federal Register Notice of Final Program Criteria announcing its criteria for defining urban and rural territory based on the results of Census 2000. The Census Bureau is correcting the final criteria as they apply to 1990 urbanized areas that did not qualify as part of a Census 2000 urbanized area.
SUMMARY:
Urban an rural territory; classification criteria; correction,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
On March 15, 2002 (67 FR 11663), the Census Bureau published a Federal Register Notice of Final Program Criteria announcing its criteria for defining urban and rural territory based on the results of Census 2000. The Census Bureau is correcting the final criteria as they apply to 1990 urbanized areas that did not qualify as part of a Census 2000 urbanized area. The corrections contained in this Notice are in addition to the corrections that were published in a Federal Register Notice on August 23, 2002 (67 FR 54631). These corrections do not affect the earlier correction Notice.
The Census Bureau is providing the following correction to the original Notice.
Page 11667, Column 1, Section I, Census 2000 Urbanized Area (UA) and Urban Cluster (UC) Definitions, the
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Census Bureau is adding a new paragraph, between the first and second
paragraphs of this Section, to read as follows: ``In addition, the
Census Bureau will designate a Census 2000 UA when all the territory in
a previously existing 1990 UA is not included in any other Census 2000
UA, contains two or more clusters of urban population that reside in
more than half the territory of the previously existing UA, and the
combined population of the clusters totals 50,000 or greater.'' Executive Order 12866
This Notice has been determined to be not significant for purposes of Executive Order 12866.
Administrative Procedure and Regulatory Flexibility Acts
Notice and comment are not required under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553), or any other law, for rules of agency organization, procedure or practice (5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A)). Because notice and comment are not required, a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is not required and has not been prepared (5 U.S.C. 603(a)). Paperwork Reduction Act
This program Notice does not represent a collection of information
subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, Title 44,U.S.C., Chapter 35.
Dated: November 15, 2002.
Charles Louis Kincannon,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Robert W. Marx, Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau, 4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400, Washington, DC 202337400; telephone (301) 4572131; email at: ua@geo.census.gov.